The book "Private Money" belongs to the author of the Nobel Prize winner in economics Friedrich Hayek, devoted to practical issues of building and functioning of a free society, in a vivid convincing form shows the need to eliminate the government monopoly to issue means of payment, shows the mechanisms and consequences of consumption of public trust by governments, contains proposals for creating a competitive system of means of settlement between legal entities and individuals, including cash purchases and provisioning for future payments. The book is addressed to managers and specialists of state and commercial credit and banking, insurance, investment and other financial institutions, graduate students and teachers in economics and finance, law enforcement officials, deputies, as well as everyone who is interested in the laws of social development and its prospects in the XXI century.